The 1943 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1943)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between April 28, 1943 and May 10, 1943.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1943 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
April 28, 1943 to May 10, 1943
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 302 km (188 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1943119N08143

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Apr 28, 12:008.4N 143.3ETropical storm
Apr 28, 18:009.7N 142.8ETropical storm
Apr 29, 00:0010.7N 142.3ETropical storm
Apr 29, 06:0011.2N 141.8ETropical storm
Apr 29, 12:0011.5N 141.4ETropical storm
Apr 29, 18:0011.8N 140.9ETropical storm
Apr 30, 00:0012.1N 140.5ETropical storm
Apr 30, 06:0012.3N 140.4ETropical storm
Apr 30, 12:0012.5N 140.3ETropical storm
Apr 30, 18:0012.6N 140.1ETropical storm
May 1, 00:0012.7N 139.9ETropical storm
May 1, 06:0012.9N 139.7ETropical storm
May 1, 12:0013.2N 139.6ETropical storm
May 1, 18:0013.4N 139.5ETropical storm
May 2, 00:0013.6N 139.4ETropical storm
May 2, 06:0014.0N 139.0ETropical storm
May 2, 12:0014.3N 138.6ETropical storm
May 2, 18:0014.1N 138.3ETropical storm
May 3, 00:0013.6N 138.1ETropical storm
May 3, 06:0013.2N 137.8ETropical storm
May 3, 12:0012.8N 137.4ETropical storm
May 3, 18:0012.6N 137.0ETropical storm
May 4, 00:0012.6N 136.3ETropical storm
May 4, 06:0012.8N 135.3ETropical storm
May 4, 12:0013.1N 134.1ETropical storm
May 4, 18:0013.5N 132.7ETropical storm
May 5, 00:0014.0N 131.5ETropical storm
May 5, 06:0014.4N 130.7ETropical storm
May 5, 12:0014.8N 130.2ETropical storm
May 5, 18:0015.5N 129.9ETropical storm
May 6, 00:0016.2N 129.6ETropical storm
May 6, 06:0016.7N 128.9ETropical storm
May 6, 12:0016.9N 128.0ETropical storm
May 6, 18:0016.5N 126.6ETropical storm
May 7, 00:0016.4N 125.6ETropical storm
May 7, 06:0017.3N 125.8ETropical storm
May 7, 12:0018.6N 126.6ETropical storm
May 7, 18:0019.5N 127.0ETropical storm
May 8, 00:0020.6N 127.6ETropical storm
May 8, 06:0022.3N 128.8ETropical storm
May 8, 12:0024.0N 130.4ETropical storm
May 8, 18:0025.3N 132.2ETropical storm
May 9, 00:0026.4N 134.2ETropical storm
May 9, 06:0027.2N 136.6ETropical storm
May 9, 12:0027.9N 139.0ETropical storm
May 9, 18:0028.8N 141.1ETropical storm
May 10, 00:0029.8N 143.0ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1943

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.